wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130514
= Minutes for Meeting of May 14th, 2013, 15:00 UTC =
== Next Meeting ==
* Tuesday, May 28th, 2013, 15:00 UTC
== Attending ==
* Emmanuele Bassi
* Rosanna Yuen
* Bastien Nocera
* Shaun !McCance
* Andreas Nilsson
* Seif Lotfy
* Tobias Mueller
* Karen Sandler
=== Regrets ===
* Joanmarie Diggs
== Board Meeting Agenda ==
* A11y work
* We accepted a bid, now we want to get some publicity out
* Karen wrote a contract based on the previous ones and sent it to
Igalia for signing
* We should announce that the bid has been approved
* We should have a better PR campaign when the work has been completed
* Events
* GUADEC 2013
* Update on GUADEC 2013
* Two keynotes finalized, remaining two are top priority
* Final round of acceptance / rejection emails will be sent soon
* Need to improve the web presence
* When will we have the face to face Board and Advisory Board meeting
* We shall ask the advisory board when they want to have it.
* The board meeting is probably better to be had before the adboard
meeting
* What is the status of a contract for video services?
* New contract has been updated after our recommendations
* Letters of invitation for people needing Visa's.
* Karen wanted to coordinate with Robert and Florian to make sure
that the right person send the letter of invitation to those who need
it. Has that been done?
* Karen sent them a template, will update after the next GUADEC meeting
* Upcoming "Boston Summit"
* Karen wanted to reach out to people from Boston and Montreal to
see if they are interested in organizing it. Is anyone interested?
* Montreal seem to have organizers selected
* dotNET + GNOME Hackfest 2013:
* https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/dotNET2013
* David Nielsen sent an e-mail to the board asking for help with a
.NET GNOME 3 Hackfest in October.
* They are talking with sponsors, but would appreciate help with
that from the board too.
* Karen wanted to talk to potential sponsors. Has any sponsor returned
yet?
* They've already secured some corporate sponsorship but not having
much luck finding additional sponsors
* Budget estimate is USD 5000
* The attendees are not all foundation members
* The board would like to see an updated budget and proposal
* '''ACTION''': Karen to send an email to David Nielsen for an
update on the dotNET hackfest proposal (done)
* Other upcoming events
* Marketing hackfest
* Karen proposed a Marketing hackfest:
https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/Marketing2013
* Do we approve the 4500 USD?
* Karen is still waiting for an answer from SFLC to use their
space for the hackfest
* There are various fallbacks in place
* Updated budget to USD 5500 to cover eventual increased flight costs
* '''VOTE''': Approve the marketing hackfest budget of USD 5500:
+1 Bastien, Tobi, Shaun, Seif, Emmanuele; Andreas abstains
* '''ACTION''': Karen to notify marketing team regarding the
hackfest approval (done)
* Maps hackfest
* https://live.gnome.org/Maps/HackfestSpring2013
* Needs moving page to the right location
* There is a venue
* Only one person would require travel assistance
* Evaluation of GNOME instance of Etherpad.
* slow but better than Gobby which crashes
* Andreas wanted to fix the wiki.
* Adboard meeting
* Our last adboard meeting was in early February, it's time to start
schedule the next one.
* Suggested date is May 17th
* Have we agreed on this now?
* We need to create and send out an agenda. Potential topics are
* Testing/OSTree
* Karen wanted to reach out to Colin and ask if he wants to present
code testing in GNOME using OSTree. Has he responded yet?
* Colin is prepared to participate.
* GUADEC meeting schedule
* Zareason
* '''ACTION''': Karen to send the agenda for the adboard meeting
* Potential future topics
* User testing
* Extensions
* Annual Report
* Andreas is currently working on picking up the designs
* Close to completion
* Accounting Software fundraiser for Free Software organizations.
* Free Software Conservancy are raising money to create a
accounting software for free software organizations and wants a
endorsement from the GNOME Foundation.
* Still in the preliminary stages
* Rosanna, Shaun and Karen wanted to write up a report of the
current pros and cons of GNUCash.
* Travel Committee, Delegation, Budgets, etc.
* Joanie put together her thoughts on the issue in a lenghty e-mail.
* She also sent a shorter version of her proposal to the travel
commitee and board-list
* Organizers should be responsible, but we still need somebody to
take point in talking with the organizers
* Discussion continues on the mailing list
* Collecting funds in Europe
* Karen and Tobias are blocking to write a Memorandum Of Understanding
* Sysadmin and CiviCRM update
* Andrea has been sending updates for the sysadmin side
* But it's a bit unclear for the CiviCRM side
== New Action Items ==
* Karen to send an email to David Nielsen for an update on the dotNET
hackfest proposal (done)
* Karen to notify marketing team regarding the hackfest approval (done)
* Karen to send the agenda for the adboard meeting
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W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name
B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/